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by squigz 9mo ago
The problem isn't fundamentally advertising - it's stuff like toxic and anti-user advertisements, and the ad industry not knowing what the word "privacy" means.
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by squigz 9mo ago
Okay I'm a little embarrassed to admit I might have been pronouncing it that last way for the past 20 years...
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by squigz 9mo ago
We have that in Canada too
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by squigz 9mo ago
Literally everybody except you knows what I and both GP were referring to.
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by squigz 9mo ago
You could consider emailing them if you notice things first in the future https://torrentfreak.com/contact/
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by squigz 9mo ago
Traditional radio mostly sucks, but Soma.fm and KEXP are both great for discovering new music.
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by squigz 9mo ago
The metadata torrent is only ~200GB, which should be well within your capabilities. https://annas-archive.li/torrents/spotify Anyway, I think you should keep in mind 2 things: 1) 10,000 tracks really is not a lot. It s
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by squigz 9mo ago
I'd be interested to see some information on LLMs being used for legal research. I expect it would not go well. I don't imagine it's just a simple matter of summarizing the text that's there - one has to interpret it wit
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by squigz 9mo ago
> Having received my letter, Justice Souter notified the Reporter of the error, and at 535 U.S. i appears an erratum, directing that “Homer nodded” be inserted—eight or nine years after the opinion was delivered. I would guess correction
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by squigz 10mo ago
I'm not entirely sure what this sort of pedantry is meant to accomplish. Congratulations on being technically correct, I suppose? Both I and GP have pointed out the crux of the matter, and you are ignoring it.
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by squigz 10mo ago
Just the HN hug of death. Here's another https://open-slum.pages.dev/
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by squigz 10mo ago
Possibly because context matters to many people. AA is not stealing every byte of data they can get in order to make billions of dollars, collect personal data about people, and then sell that for even more money.
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by squigz 10mo ago
Oh, fair enough haha given the context I did not consider that definition of it Perhaps "profile" might work?
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by squigz 10mo ago
Ideally, if AA doesn't have any public web presence it's a lot harder to publicly disseminate those torrents. Realistically, it's just a way for someone to say something is being done about this, even if it's not going t
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by squigz 10mo ago
When people talk about a "non profit" entity, they are almost certainly referring to a legal non-profit. Maybe that's not what GP meant. And yes, you are technically correct in that there's no way to know that they are o
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by squigz 10mo ago
https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
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by squigz 10mo ago
This kind of implies a legitimacy that AA just doesn't have. They're not 'a' non-profit, and there's simply no way to know that they're not taking in loads of money and pocketing it.
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by squigz 10mo ago
Fingerprints? Wrong appendages, unless I don't know what "gait" means
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by squigz 10mo ago
TPB is still up, 20+ years later, despite plenty of attention from similar groups.
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by squigz 10mo ago
You don't need "karma" to edit Wikipedia.
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by squigz 10mo ago
Kraft Dinner will never die up in Canada
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by squigz 10mo ago
Maybe the thing you're missing is that, for many of those people, the "relationship" does not feel very successful.
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by squigz 10mo ago
Politics I can understand, but what's wrong with, say, a deaf or blind user putting that in their bio?
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by squigz 10mo ago
> It's far easier to reduce consumption by cutting the supply entering your country, than solving the self-actualization issues (is it even one?) of your population. Stuff like this is hard to believe in 2025 without really compelli
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by squigz 10mo ago
This is a lie, so why is it still on the front page?
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by squigz 10mo ago
Lumping image gen models, LLMs, and other forms of recent machine learning altogether and dressing it up in the "National Defence" ribbon doesn't seem like a great idea. I don't think the ability for citizens to make dee
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by squigz 10mo ago
1-2 hours a day? That does seem sky-high...
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by squigz 10mo ago
1 and 2 do not seem to suggest that cyberbullying is more harmful in this regard than other forms of bullying - and in fact only 3 seems to contrast these concepts at all. > Sensitivity analyses suggested that cybervictimization only and
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by squigz 10mo ago
Usually when those discussions come up, there are plenty of people recognizing both that 1) parents do need to be more responsible, but also that 2) we need sane parental control systems. What we don't need is more bandaids that ma
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by squigz 10mo ago
Allowing these teenagers who are being bullied to explore spaces where they feel safe and comfortable seems like a good idea too though. As someone who was bullied in school, being online did not make that issue any worse, and allowed me to

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